All Films

Water toboggan (Montagnes russes sur l'eau)

1897 • 1 min • France

Early water rollercoaster-type ride.

Tedders

1897 • 1 min • France

People raking a field.

Racing at Sheepshead Bay

1897 • 1 min

The finish and weighing out of a running race with nine starters. Won by the famous Clifford, Sloane up.

Magician, I

1897 • 1 min • France

A magician performs a few tricks.

Sauts au cheval en longueur

1897 • 1 min • France

Attelage d'un camion

1897 • 1 min • France

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

Batteuse de blé

1897 • 1 min • France

Workers hauling bundles of hay.

Feu de bois

1897 • 1 min • France

Men burning a pile of wood.

Une partie de lawn-tennis, I

1897 • 1 min • France

Tennis match between two women and a man.

Le prince et la princesse de Naples

1897 • 1 min • France

Elena of Montenegro and Victor Emmanuel III, followed by their escort.

Lourdes, procession, I

1897 • 1 min • France

People carry candles in a procession in Lourdes.

The Parisians

1897 • 1 min • United States of America

Images of Parisian women

Changing Guard (Berlin)

1897 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Military in Germany.

Lyon, travaux au canal de Jonage: locomobile

1897 • 1 min • France

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

Gigolos et gigolettes

1897 • 1 min • France

A man is robbed of everything he's got and gets in trouble with the police about it.

President McKinley's Inauguration

1897 • 1 min

This film was shot on March 4, 1897 and is historic because it was the first footage shot of a sitting American President.

Via Marina

1897 • 1 min • France

Ocean Greyhounds

1897 • 1 min • United States of America

'The 'Nordland,' and 'Teutonic,' two well-known transatlantic steamers proceeding out of New York Harbor at full speed, bound for their trip across the Atlantic ocean. The dash of the water about their bows is shown very effectively.

Panorama des rives de la Seine, I

1897 • 1 min • France

Lourdes, leaving the Church of the Rosary

1897 • 1 min • France

People come out the doors and down the steps of the Church of the Rosary in Lourdes.

Panorama des rives de la Seine, II

1897 • 1 min • France

Battle of the flowers and float parade, II

1897 • 1 min • France

Presents views of a parade in Montreux, including carts and donkeys covered with flowers, horsedrawn floats, bicycles, and people in native dress.

Henley Royal Regatta

1897 • 1 min

Early film of annual Henley race, c. 1896-1897

Fatima

1897 • 2 min

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."